The Dark Knight

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character of Batman

...Batman: Year One (1987),
Batman Begins retold the saga of Batman’s origin, showing his training and his early days as a costumed crime fighter. The 2008 sequel,
The Dark Knight, was an even bigger commercial and critical success. The standout performance in the film was the late Heath Ledger’s extraordinary portrayal of the Joker, for which he won a...

discussed in biography

...project was
The Prestige (2006), a story of two warring illusionists in early 20th-century London. He then began work on a second Batman film, cowritten with his brother Jonathan.
The Dark Knight leaned even more heavily on the moral and structural decay of its setting, fictional Gotham City, and it revived such classic Batman villains as the Joker (played by Heath...

Oscar to Ledger for best supporting actor, 2008

role of

Bale

...a struggling rancher in the tense American western
3:10 to Yuma (2007), and Bob Dylan in
I’m Not There (2007). In 2008 he reprised his role as Wayne and Batman in
The Dark Knight. The film—which was released shortly after the accidental death of costar Heath Ledger, who played the Joker—set box-office records amid critical acclaim.

Caine

...
Batman Begins, playing the superhero’s butler and confidant, Alfred. The film was a critical and commercial success. He reprised the role in the sequels
The Dark Knight (2008) and
The Dark Knight Rises (2012). Caine’s other notable films include the thrillers
Children of Men (2006) and ...

Ledger

Ledger had completed his role as the Joker in the Batman movie
The Dark Knight (2008) and was working on the Terry Gilliam film
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus when he died from an accidental overdose of a mixture of prescription drugs. Ledger was posthumously awarded the Golden Globe and the Academy Award for best supporting actor for his...

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